The oil industry is nowadays facing several problems as hydrocarbon reserves are declining and challenging areas are forced to explore. Deepwater drilling is one of these challenging areas as increased target depth results ...

As the petroleum industry is in a constant move north for new exploration and production areas, both challenges and opportunities are many. The vast majority of the northern hemisphere are characterized by low temperatures, ...

A brief introduction is given to a range of well control procedures. It was found that many of the procedures rely on a set of simplifying assumptions. This is particularly true in the hand calculations for designing a ...

The global economy is set to grow four-fold by 2050, promising economic benefits and a higher standard of living for millions. At the same time the global community is uniting in an effort to combat global warming. Achieving ...

The report work on this laboratory simulation, will be simulated a Drilling Operation to identify the challenges that this operation carries, and how to mitigated them. Nowadays, the high demand by Operators to drill ...

The thesis focuses on time-lapse Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) of data acquire with Permanent Downhole Gauges (PDGs). The objective is to develop and test approaches in automation of time-lapse PTA. Helping in providing ...

Well instability in shale formations has been a very major problem due to physiochemical interactions between drilling fluid and formation. In this thesis, chemical, thermal and diffusion effects on the well collapse ...

Material fatigue is a failure mode that has been known to researchers and engineers since the 19th century. Catastrophic accidents have happened due to fatigue failures of structures, machinery and transport vehicles. ...

Drilled cuttings-bed formation is a natural process during wellbore drilling operations, although it is not desired. To optimally remove the drilled cuttings out of the wellbore it is important to break the formed beds. ...